Red states start to whine
"Idaho Republican Rep. Mike Simpson, a senior appropriator whose district is home to a number of national parks, said in an interview his staff is talking to the administration about how an OMB-directed, government-wide hiring freeze will affect the National Park Service.Meanwhile, another appropriations lawmaker, Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS), "has told the White House that DOGE’s dismantling of USAID will impact cons uents who have long relied on selling their crops to a government program that fights hunger abroad."https://www.rawstory.com/gop-trump-cuts-2671158629/Another senator now jumping into the discussion is Sen. S ey Moore Capito (R-WV), whose state has some of the highest percentages of Trump voters in America. She expressed concern that the recent evisceration of the National Ins utes of Health could stall biomedical research in West Virginia.
“I’m hearing from my ins utions concerned about it,” she said. “It’s pretty drastic.”

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